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The Performance Inequality Gap, 2023

3 pointsby prhrbabout 2 years ago

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sophiabitsabout 2 years ago
Alex’s posts on web performance are always on point and it’s a real shame that there are so few people talking about both the ethical crisis and climate impact of slow software.<p>I live in New Zealand where we had a remarkably successful fibre internet rollout, and there’s a definite blind spot for web users who don’t have access to such high quality infrastructure. It can be difficult to get buy in for getting performance work done and I think articles like this one are useful.<p>For people interestee in climate, there’s a great bit about the CO2 savings from the optimizations introduced in PHP 7 [1]. Small energy savings multiplied across many computers is impactful.<p>[1] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;conf2.php.net&#x2F;bnl19#&#x2F;impact4" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;conf2.php.net&#x2F;bnl19#&#x2F;impact4</a>